Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Barry Trotter and the Unnecessary Sequel: The Book Nobody Has Been Waiting For by Michael Gerber is the second humorous fantasy novel which pokes fun at Harry Potter. The headmaster is horribly killed and its up to Barry and his wife a bookworm with an overactive libido to figure out who did the deed. At the same time Barry is getting younger. There's also a subplot where their son tries to deal with the fact that he doesn't have any magical ability. The first book in the series did do some surprisingly touching characterization but there's none of that here. The humor has been ratcheted up and is even more over-the-top than the original. I still enjoyed this but not as much as the original. There's a third book which I'll be picking up eventually.